Boris describes black people as “flag-waving piccaninnies”

Boris said the Queen was greeted by 'flag waving piccaninnies' in a 2002 Daily Telegraph column

Boris was forced to apologise after comments in a Daily Telegraph article in 2002 while he was MP for Henley.

He wrote: "the Queen has come to love the Commonwealth, partly because it supplies her with regular cheering crowds of flag-waving piccaninnies”.

In another section he said: "They say he is shortly off to the Congo.

"No doubt the AK47s will fall silent, and the pangas will stop their hacking of human flesh, and the tribal warriors will all break out in watermelon smiles to see the big white chief touch down in his big white British taxpayer-funded bird.”

Boris tells Beijing the Brits invented table tennis

Boris managed to ruffle feathers during the 2008 Beijing Olympics when he told an audience that the Chinese stole table tennis from a game developed in Victorian England, from a game called "whiff-whaff".

Boris bails out of Iraq...leaving a massive, unpaid bar bill

According to the Guardian, Boris Johnson's trip to see troops in Iraq ended with him skipping out of town without settling a hefty bar bill.

FOI data shows "costs related to alcohol purchases" during the visit in january 2015.

A spokesman for the then London Mayor said: "The mayor had always intended to settle what was a private drinks bill but an administrative oversight meant that the bill was not settled on his departure.

"The FCO brought this to the attention of the mayor’s office soon afterwards and the mayor personally paid the bill immediately."

Boris blows a tour of Palestine after "disrespectful" pro-Israel comments

A planned visit to Palestine in November 2015 was cancelled after Boris told a Tel Aviv audience that a boycott of Israeli goods was "completely crazy" and supported by "corduroy, jacketed, snaggletoothed, lefty academics in the UK".

Palestinian officials said the comments risked creating protests and accused him of being "misinformed" and "disrespectful".